Today I attended the first day of the inquest into the death of Dan Tucker in December 2007 in an incident involving firearms officers from Kent Police.
The inquest, which is being conducted at the Adult Education Centre in Gravesend (pictured), is expected to run for at least a week and began today with an opening [...]
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The conviction of Commander Dizaei of the Metropolitan Police this week emphasises that the police are properly subject to the law in this country and that it will be applied to them just as to everyone else.
When a police officer behaves badly, then members of the public should know that, if they report that behaviour, [...]
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It has now been confirmed that our Chief Constable in Kent, Mike Fuller, has been appointed as the Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service. I would like to congratulate Mike on his well deserved appointment.
I believe that it is hugely impressive, and potentially of great benefit to the CPS, that Mike was called to [...]
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I don’t want to intrude on the Labour party’s private grief, so I will instead respond to Sir Hugh Orde, President of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) who, for some reason, has taken it on himself to lay down what should happen regarding Islam4UK’s threatened march through Wootton Basset.
Sir Hugh is quoted today [...]
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A message from Conservative Home and Chris Grayling, Shadow Home Secretary
Sometimes Britain seems to be going quietly mad. A country where an elderly lady can be prosecuted for poking a teenager in the chest, where a police force can be prosecuted under health and safety laws when an officer is injured chasing a criminal, where [...]
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Dear Resident
If we win the election, a Conservative government will need to make difficult decisions to put the economy and public finances back on track. I want to ensure that this is done in the least painful way possible. In particular, if elected as our MP, I will first and foremost seek to represent my [...]
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Today’s Guardian suggests that Kent Police attempted to put pressure on Medway Council to facilitate increased surveillance of climate camp protesters, despite Medway Council’s concern that this would “alienate the community”.
An FOI request has shown that Sergeant Keith Waymont wrote to us at the Council to complain that council officers were not being sufficiently co-operative [...]
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Mark Reckless is to make inquiries into the alleged arrest and detention of an amateur photographer in Chatham High Street under section 44 of the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2000 on Wednesday 8th July.
As the Kent Police Authoritys lead member for legal services and member of the Professional Standards committee, Mark helps ensure that complaints [...]
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Chris Grayling has spoken about the urgent need to “tackle the blight of antisocial behaviour” in order to fix our Broken Society.
The Shadow Home Secretary highlighted Home Office statistics showing three million acts of antisocial behaviour recorded last year, adding, “And that’s only a tiny fraction.”
Pointing to the tragic events in Doncaster this week as [...]
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The Kent Police Authority (KPA) have voted to increase the police precept by 4.99%, the maximum likely to be permitted by the government with a 5% cap. This is in line with the KPA’s policy as set out by its Deputy Chairman, Cllr Mike Hill, to raise the precept to the average of whatever other [...]
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